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Foskito wrote: ????

You are not an engineer. lol
Lesson one, image.

Neither am I. A post by AnotherMike on DPReview, which I've quoted somewhere on here, where he said 20 years on a photography forum may be long enough. I concurred with my 12 years on DPReview.

DPReview was fun and exciting in the days of the D800 and Df. When the Zees came along, there could be no heated discussions on them, particular the AF (or lack of it) Kim Jong Un came out, banned temporarily members who were a bit persistent, permanently banned members who were a lot persistent, removed or changed a whole lot of text to put the Zees in a good light. That put a bad taste in the mouths of many, a lot of us geared back our postings, a lot more just left. It took awhile, but in the last year or two you can find many of the fanboys have become critical of what they bought.

I responded to this post from AnotherMike
dprevived.com/t/nikonz-viewfinder-vs-others/47/#post-9943

He would not have posted that on DPReview. And if he did, it would have been removed, he'd have gotten a warning or at least received a temporary ban from the Zee forum. And I see while checking his posts for this post, that he's only had one other post on here. This one
dprevived.com/t/whats-going-on-with-nikon/2363/3/#post-22334

Which no one would have gotten away with posting on the DPReview Zee forum. I was kinda permanently on a warning in the Zee forum, I'd have been out for sure if I made that post.

So all of the above, except the first little paragraph, to point out that I noticed "Moderators Team Talk" as one of the headings. :) I hope this place doesn't go all to hell like DPReview. I'm sure there's many here just waiting to see where this place is going, and likely many more who haven't joined as they're waiting. I noticed there was a bit of a heated exchange on ISO, Exposure Triangles, or manual transmission vehicles (not sure what the actual topic was - too many posts) but that was among "the academics" More interesting in seeing how it pans out for the lower class.

And one two final point/s. Many of the members were, surprisingly to me, late 70's, 80's, with Leonard saying he was going to be 92 this year. Maybe that's enough for most of that age group.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the forum part of DPReview survives.

This thread is about interaction in current forums, so I don't think this has anything to do with it:

"It seems like only yesterday I was a new hire engineer at IBM being put to work on this brand new product idea they called the model 5150. Aka the Personal Computer. And, man! Was that design Fast! My school teaching microcomputer had a 1 MHz 6502 and here I was making a prototype which had a 4.77 MHz 8088. ;)
And Kodak was interesting IBM in these 1 MP CCD sensors we could make use of for machine vision on board production lines."

That is why I replied with a "???".

In my world, one’s a camera, the other is a post-processing studio.

@Foskito

okay… part of the thread has deviated somewhat, just like everyday conversations do.
It was not hijacked.

Stan’s post was an acknowledgement of the EE (electrical engineering) advancements in a relatively short period of time… since I had mentioned, from one transistor in 1947 to where we are today, 16 billion transistors in a smartphone (mobile phone), in your back pocket.
Who'd a thunk it. lol

Heck, I thought I was the bee's knees back in the 1960s and 70s listening to ballgames on my little six-transistor shirt-pocket radio.
The transistor radio was the internet of the day.

Yeah from forum interaction to IBM computers, CCD sensors and transistor radios... but it was not "hijacked" lol

I'm done here, feel free to have the last word.
LMAO

For me one is a camera, the other can be one in an emergency. Processing I do mostly on a PC, but I prefer to approach that from the software side [Adobe in my case] and the operating system rarely matters. Most asset management is there as well.

Heck sorry I didn't know that either ........ oops sorry I said sorry, it won't happen again, sorry about that.